Tallgrass is currently the only Sudbury school in Illinois. The closest Sudbury school to us is Kokosing Valley School in Ohio. You can find the closest Sudbury school to you by viewing the Google Map created by Alpine Valley School in Colorado. The original Sudbury school is Sudbury Valley School in Massachusetts, founded in 1968.

Wikipedia has a comprehensive list of schools in the US and in other countries following the principles of Sudbury education.

Check out psychology professor Peter Gray's wonderful Psychology Today blog, Freedom to Learn, about the roles of play and curiosity as foundations for learning: "Children come into the world with instinctive drives to educate themselves. These include the drives to play and explore."

Are children punished by rewards?

Is our education system keeping up with our changing world?

In "Turning Learning Right Side Up" authors Russell Ackoff and Daniel Greenberg delve into interesting questions that challenge our current education system like "Do classrooms make sense anymore?" and "Are distinctions between the arts and sciences still meaningful?" Find out here.